Apparatus for dyeing



(No Model.)

I. E. PALMER.

APPARATUS FOR DYEING.

Iva 408,388. Patented Aug. 6, 1889..

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ISAAC E. PALMER, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT. I

APPARATUS FOR DYEING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,388, dated August 6, 1889. Application filed January 20, 1888. Serial No. 261,395. (No model.)

r0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAAC E. PALMER, of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Handling and Containing Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

I will describe in detail adyeing apparatus embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in a claim.

The accompanying drawings illustrate an apparatus embodying my improvement.

The goods to be treated are deposited in the casing C which is of J-shaped or U- shaped form, and comprises a longer or receiving leg or arm 0 and a shorter or delivering leg or arm 0.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of apparatus embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures.

The goods, which are in ropyform, are laid in folds from. right to left of the figure across the casing C. In ordinary practice, as heretofore, this would continue until the goods were all deposited within the casing C, whether such deposition had required a longer or shorter time, and then the withdrawal of the goods from the casing 0 would be commenced with the end last deposited in the longer arm 0 thereof. WVith this method, it will be seen that if the goods require an hour and a half to deposit them in the easing and another hour and a half to withdraw them from the casing C, the portion of goods first entered in the casing in building the pile therein would remain therein three hours longer than the portion of goods last entered and first removed; and my object is to remove the goods from the casing C by commencing with the end first deposited therein, which will be inverted and presented upward in the shorter arm or branch o in the casing C, and if this be done all portions of the length of the goods will remain in that casing an equal length of time.

If the goods be packed within the casing C with considerable solidity, and the opposite sides of the casing were made of solid and immovable parts throughout their length, the automatic inversion and upward presentation of the goods in the shorter arm 0 might be a matter of some difficulty, and to prevent this I form the lower portion or bend or curve of the casing of two substantially parallel endless aprons C C The apron C, which may be made of slats equal in length to the width of the casing C, (represented in Fig. 2,) passes around rollers o c 0 while the other apron C ,which is very much shorter, passes around rollers c 0 Now it will be understood that the goods which are deposited with considerable solidity in the longer arm of the J- shaped casing will by their friction upon the opposite aprons C C tend to move both aprons in the directions indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1, and will thereby invert the goods and present upward in the shorter arm 0 the portion of the goods first deposited within the casing, and such portion may then be drawn up over the roller 0 and conveyed away.

It is obvious that none of the goods should be removed from the shorter arm 0 of the casing C until they have been allowed to lie for a desired time, and by my method this intention may be accurately carried out, while if an'attem pt were made to remove the goods from the longer arm of the casing C, wherein they are first deposited, the last portion of the goods to leave the casing would remain in the casing as much longer than the last portion deposited in the casing C and the first removed therefrom as the entire time required to deposit and remove the full length of fabric, and the product would therefore have different portions of its length in varying c011- ditions.

In some cases it may be desirable to impart a very slow positive motion to the apron C, and I have shown the shaft of the roller 0 as having upon it a wheel o ,with which a worm c driven slowly, may engage to move the apron O.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A receptacle for receiving fabrics, composed of a J-shaped or U-shaped casing open at both ends and having upper and lower inner curved surfaces, consisting of or formed by traveling aprons, substantially as specified.

- ISAAC E. PALMER.

Witnesses:

JOHN G. PALMER, FRANK FALLON. 

